Top 16 Space startups in Germany

Updated: April 15, 2024 | Editor: Boris Maslennikov

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Funding: $350.6M
Isar Aerospace provides access to space for small and medium satellites, enabling global satellite constellations.
2
Funding: €47.3M
The Exploration Company develops, manufactures and operates modular and reusable spaceships serving the needs of space stations.
3
Funding: $38.2M
LiveEO provides earth observation technologies and solutions.
4
Funding: $37.2M
RFA - Rocket Factory Augsburg is a space technologies company offering fast & flexible launch solutions for satellite constellations.
5
Funding: €23.4M
OroraTech is a software development company that provides thermal intelligence and wildfire solutions from space for a sustainable earth. ​
6
Funding: €10.3M
Reflex Aerospace delivers payload-centric, dual-use, secure-by-design satellite technology at unparalleled speed.
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POLARIS Spaceplanes is developing a revolutionary reusable space launch and hypersonic transport system Aurora that operates like an aircraft. Aurora combines aircraft and rocket launcher technologies with a unique vehicle design, and offers a game-changing economic viability as well as opening the door for routine low-cost and safe access to space.
8
Funding: €8.5M
Vyoma helps in increasing confidence in space with real-time debris observations and AI, for safe and automated satellite operations.
9
Funding: €5.5M
OKAPI:Orbits is a SaaS startup dedicated to making space travel more sustainable through Collision Avoidance Software for satellites.
10
Funding: €5.3M
Airmo is a satellite constellation that provides monitoring greenhouse gas emissions.
11
Funding: €4M
ATMOS Space Cargo develops and manufactures space capsules to return cargo from space, microgravity experiments to entire rocket stages.
12
Funding: €2.5M
UNIO is seamlessly bridging terrestrial and space networks for all mobility use cases and delivering reliable, always-on connectivity.
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Funding: $10K
Neutron Star Systems develops disruptive Electric Propulsion for Spacecraft based on first-of-its-kind SUPerconductor based Readiness Enhanced Magnetoplasmadynamic Electric Propulsion thruster
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Pulsar Fusion has designed the first launch-capable, high-power chemical rocket engine fueled by plastic waste. Pulsar is in advanced stages of design of Fusion power station reactor
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Rivada Space Networks' services are tailored to the needs of B2B customers and governments to meet their special requirements.
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Exolaunch provides rideshare and dedicated launch services for small satellites and cubesats.
Editor: Boris Maslennikov
Boris Maslennikov is a senior editor for Space-Startups. He has spent more than a decade covering the global space industry as a business journalist. He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science from the California Institute of Technology. In his free time, Boris enjoys studying history and mathematics, with a particular interest in the history of mathematics. You can contact Boris at borismaslenikov(at)space-startups(dot)com